"No parking in the red zone!" Ha ha. Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for an action movie from Belgium (in the Dutch language) titled Hazard, also stylized as H4Z4RD during its original premiere. This first opened in 2022 in Belgium, and hit the genre festivals in late 2023 playing at Fantastic Fest, FrightFest, and Sitges last year. It's hard to describe: Noah really loves his girlfriend, his daughter, and his car, but he gets involved in a deadly driving job that will result in either losing his life, his family or his beloved car. It's a car movie, and an action movie, rolled into one - and the title comes from the guy's name, Noah Hazard - starring superstar DJ Dimitri 'Vegas' Thivaios. The cast also includes Jeroen Perceval, Jennifer Heylen, Mila Rooms, Frank Lammers, Monic Hendrickx, Tom Vermeir, Emilie De Roo, and Gene Bervoets. Looks like it...
- 4/23/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"It's not about money. It's about people." Netflix has revealed the new official trailer for a series titled Soil, made in and produced in Belgium, but primarily about a Moroccan community in the country. Here's the setup for this dark comedy series: If a Muslim person passes away in Belgium, he burdens his relatives with a delicate dilemma: "Do we bury him here or in his native country?" Ishmael, better known as "Smile", has devised a solution: "What if we import soil from Morocco into Belgium to bury our deceased?" But without realising it, he's opening Pandora's 'coffin'. Ha. This originally premiered on TV in Belgium last year, and is coming to Netflix soon for everyone else to watch. The main cast includes actors Yassine Ouaich, Charlotte De Bruyne, Barbara Sarafian, Tom Vermeir, Saïd Boumazoughe, Mourade Zeguendi, Ahlaam Teghadouini, Dries Heyneman, Ward Kerremans, Emilie De Roo and Wannes Cappelle. This is clever!
- 2/16/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Admirably uncompromising depiction of what may or may not be its hero’s subconscious is intensely realised but not all that much fun to watch
By turns fetid and febrile, pyretic and putrid, and all things hot and sticky, this unique avant garde work is the result of a collaboration between writer-director Stefan Lernous and his colleagues at Abattoir Fermé, a theatre company based in the Belgian Flemish-speaking city of Mechelen. It has a plot, of sorts: there’s a guy named Dave who looks after his family’s supposedly empty hotel, an elaborate set full of rooms encrusted with mould, grot and dead stuff, all of it in the process of mulching down into one sludgy, semi-organic mass. Perhaps the title is a clue that this is all taking place in some para-aquatic terrain, which would explain the abundance of tridents and fishtanks and other watery kit.
Anyway, Dave...
By turns fetid and febrile, pyretic and putrid, and all things hot and sticky, this unique avant garde work is the result of a collaboration between writer-director Stefan Lernous and his colleagues at Abattoir Fermé, a theatre company based in the Belgian Flemish-speaking city of Mechelen. It has a plot, of sorts: there’s a guy named Dave who looks after his family’s supposedly empty hotel, an elaborate set full of rooms encrusted with mould, grot and dead stuff, all of it in the process of mulching down into one sludgy, semi-organic mass. Perhaps the title is a clue that this is all taking place in some para-aquatic terrain, which would explain the abundance of tridents and fishtanks and other watery kit.
Anyway, Dave...
- 12/28/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Ruth Becquart, Steve Geerts, Anneke Sluiters, Tine Van den Wyngaert, Dominique Van Malder, Tom Vermeir | Written and Directed by Stef Lernous
Sometimes, just sometimes, you come across a film that defies categorisation; some that defy logic. Then there’s Hotel Poseidon. Which defies categorisation, logic, explanation… you name it. This film is Literally someones twisted fever dream – a series of vignettes told in one locale from the point of view of one person but featuring a bizarre, absurdist and downright disturbing cast of characters And situations – writ large on the screen. And whomever this dream belongs to has some serious issues!
The films “plot” – if you can say this film has a plot – tells the story of Dave, the reluctant manager of a hotel where fungus covers the walls and comments such as “faded glory” and “has seen better times” completely fall short to describe this establishment. He wanders...
Sometimes, just sometimes, you come across a film that defies categorisation; some that defy logic. Then there’s Hotel Poseidon. Which defies categorisation, logic, explanation… you name it. This film is Literally someones twisted fever dream – a series of vignettes told in one locale from the point of view of one person but featuring a bizarre, absurdist and downright disturbing cast of characters And situations – writ large on the screen. And whomever this dream belongs to has some serious issues!
The films “plot” – if you can say this film has a plot – tells the story of Dave, the reluctant manager of a hotel where fungus covers the walls and comments such as “faded glory” and “has seen better times” completely fall short to describe this establishment. He wanders...
- 8/27/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Pallid days stretch infinitely into chaotic nights at the Hotel Poseidon, a rundown inn overseen by a rundown innkeeper named Dave (Tom Vermeir). He's just inherited the place and one gets the impression that it is not exactly the kind of boon one hopes for to operate as a salve for grief of losing a loved one. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Hotel Poseidon seems to be decomposing before our very eyes as we follow Dave through his daily routine; attending to what few guests he gets, fending off crazy ideas for an in-house discotheque, taking care of his ill -- wait, scratch that -- dead aunt, and trying desperately to forget what a miserable life he leads before starting all over again the...
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- 8/21/2021
- Screen Anarchy
I’m not sure what I just saw. Was it surreal comedy in a setting that exudes sympathy puke aura? Was it a nightmarish horror sending us down a chaotic rabbit hole of insecurities, hopes, and inferiority? Perhaps a little of both? Either way, Stefan Lernous’ Hotel Poseidon throws any semblance of a narrative out the window with an opening scene that does nothing but rotate around the lobby of this derelict establishment to supply an ingenious title card explaining the film’s true star: its locale. The lights flicker, the coffee machine combusts, the tenants (read: squatters) do whatever they want, and someone might just be dismembering a body in the kitchen—but if anybody asks, he’s just doing “kitchen stuff.” And poor Dave (Tom Vermeir) simply wants to sleep.
How can he when his neighbor watches porn all day through the paper-thin walls? Or when his friend...
How can he when his neighbor watches porn all day through the paper-thin walls? Or when his friend...
- 8/15/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
With each October comes the Chicago International Film Festival, but with 2020 also comes a pandemic. Yes, Ciff is rightfully falling in the same school as several other festivals this year. It’s virtual! Of course, that means I get to sit giddy and bleary-eyed in my apartment for days on end instead of downtown. Insert a joke here about this being the future liberals want. The future is still a thing, right?
But enough of that. This year, the festival’s 56th iteration is keeping the communal experience alive against all odds. By expanding its Special Presentations program into Special Presentations and Drive-Ins, Ciff is showing a handful of their selections at ChiTown Movies at 2343 S. Throop St.
Alas, I don’t have a car. That’s okay, though; my first movie turned out to be quite good. It was Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Niels van Koevorden’s Becoming Mona (Grade:...
But enough of that. This year, the festival’s 56th iteration is keeping the communal experience alive against all odds. By expanding its Special Presentations program into Special Presentations and Drive-Ins, Ciff is showing a handful of their selections at ChiTown Movies at 2343 S. Throop St.
Alas, I don’t have a car. That’s okay, though; my first movie turned out to be quite good. It was Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Niels van Koevorden’s Becoming Mona (Grade:...
- 10/15/2020
- by Matt Cipolla
- The Film Stage
Collection of shorts was filmed with Covid-19 safety measures in place by directors including Michael R Roskam (‘Bullhead’).
A collection of films shot during lockdown with a cast that includes Matthias Schoenaerts is to be presented at Re>Connext (Oct 5-31), the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image.
A first look at The Lockdown Shorts, which spans drama, comedy, thriller and horror, will be presented as a works in progress project at the virtual event by producer-directors Gilles Coulier and Maarten Moerkerke.
All 12 films were shot under coronavirus-safe conditions on the same studio set: a prison visiting...
A collection of films shot during lockdown with a cast that includes Matthias Schoenaerts is to be presented at Re>Connext (Oct 5-31), the annual film and TV showcase run by Flanders Image.
A first look at The Lockdown Shorts, which spans drama, comedy, thriller and horror, will be presented as a works in progress project at the virtual event by producer-directors Gilles Coulier and Maarten Moerkerke.
All 12 films were shot under coronavirus-safe conditions on the same studio set: a prison visiting...
- 9/29/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The project is written and directed by German-based Mongolian director Uisenma Borchu.
Pim Hermeling’s Amsterdam-based Nine Film has acquired international sales rights, outside Germany, to Berlinale Panorama title Black Milk, written and directed by German-based Mongolian director Uisenma Borchu.
It will be released in Germany by Munich-based Alpenrepublik.
Black Milks a semi-autobiographical drama about a young woman in search of her roots.
“We have a tendency to follow women and stories about women. This is something important for us,” said Nelleke Driessen, head of sales and acquisitions for Nine Films.
Driessen was attending the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr...
Pim Hermeling’s Amsterdam-based Nine Film has acquired international sales rights, outside Germany, to Berlinale Panorama title Black Milk, written and directed by German-based Mongolian director Uisenma Borchu.
It will be released in Germany by Munich-based Alpenrepublik.
Black Milks a semi-autobiographical drama about a young woman in search of her roots.
“We have a tendency to follow women and stories about women. This is something important for us,” said Nelleke Driessen, head of sales and acquisitions for Nine Films.
Driessen was attending the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr...
- 1/30/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Netflix movies may still be question mark in terms of being allowed in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival in May, but the streaming giant will be present at Cannes Series. The Cannes television festival will mark its second year next month with Netflix going up against rival Amazon in the competition section. The full lineup includes series from Israel, Norway, Spain, and Belgium.
Netflix’s competition entry is the German series “How to Sell Drugs Online Fast,” from writers Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. Amazon is heading to Cannes Series with “The Feed,” a London-set drama created by Channing Powell and based on the novel Nick Clark Windo. “The Feed” stars “Game of Thrones” favorite Michelle Fairley opposite David Thewlis in a story about a piece of technology that allows people to instantly share thoughts and emotions. The tech falls into the wrong hands and becomes a murderous weapon.
Netflix’s competition entry is the German series “How to Sell Drugs Online Fast,” from writers Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. Amazon is heading to Cannes Series with “The Feed,” a London-set drama created by Channing Powell and based on the novel Nick Clark Windo. “The Feed” stars “Game of Thrones” favorite Michelle Fairley opposite David Thewlis in a story about a piece of technology that allows people to instantly share thoughts and emotions. The tech falls into the wrong hands and becomes a murderous weapon.
- 3/13/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Cannes Series has revealed the lineup, jury and masterclasses for its second edition, which takes place alongside the Mip TV market on the French Riviera.
Among ten series in competition at the TV festival are Netflix’s German show How To Sell Drugs Online and Amazon’s UK series The Feed with Michelle Fairley and David Thewlis. Out of competition shows include Starz’ Now Apocalypse and Russel T Davies’ Years And Years. Scroll down for the lineup in full.
The competition jury will be presided over by Dark show-runner Baran bo Odar with members comprising actor, director and author Stephen Fry (Gosford Park), actors Miriam Leone (Non Uccidere) and Emma Mackey (Sex Education), actor and director Katheryn Winnick (Vikings) and composer Rob (The Bureau). David Cross and Jude Law are among those with projects in the short form competition.
Among those set to give masterclasses will be Game Of Thrones...
Among ten series in competition at the TV festival are Netflix’s German show How To Sell Drugs Online and Amazon’s UK series The Feed with Michelle Fairley and David Thewlis. Out of competition shows include Starz’ Now Apocalypse and Russel T Davies’ Years And Years. Scroll down for the lineup in full.
The competition jury will be presided over by Dark show-runner Baran bo Odar with members comprising actor, director and author Stephen Fry (Gosford Park), actors Miriam Leone (Non Uccidere) and Emma Mackey (Sex Education), actor and director Katheryn Winnick (Vikings) and composer Rob (The Bureau). David Cross and Jude Law are among those with projects in the short form competition.
Among those set to give masterclasses will be Game Of Thrones...
- 3/13/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Alina Serban and Rebecca Anghel in Alone At My Wedding. Marta Bergman: 'I wanted to make an emotional film. Emotions were really the driving theme while writing it' Photo: Jonathan Ricquebourg Bucharest-born director Marta Bergman has made a number of documentaries focusing on Romania and, more specifically, on Roma communities. Now, she has made the move to narrative films with her fiction debut Alone At My Wedding (Seule à Mon Marriage), which screened in the Acid sidebar at Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of Pamela (theatre actress Alina Serban making a strong screen debut), a young single mum from the Roma community who hopes an internet love match with Belgian Bruno (Tom Vermeir) will lead to a better life for her and her toddler daughter Baby (Rebecca Anghel).
Bergman says that she doesn’t see a big difference between documentary and feature films.
“I think they are both connected,...
Bergman says that she doesn’t see a big difference between documentary and feature films.
“I think they are both connected,...
- 5/25/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Van Groeningen: "What inspired me was, why do people go out? What is attractive about nightlife? What sensations do you have, how does music play with people? How does it get people extremely excited and make people want to jump and scream?" Felix van Groeningen's Belgica was one of the Day One films at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where it competed in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. It recounts the story of two brothers, Jo (Stef Aerts) and Frank (Tom Vermeir) who take on shared ownership of the titular bar. Their success with customers brings with it personal problems, as Frank begins to enjoy the hedonistic lifestyle a bit too much, causing tensions with his wife Isabelle (Charlotte Vandermeersch), while Jo's relationship with his girlfriend Marieke (Helene De Vos) also hits the rocks.
Music played a key part in Van Groenigen's previous film, the Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown,...
Music played a key part in Van Groenigen's previous film, the Oscar-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown,...
- 2/5/2016
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Writer/director Felix van Groeningen based Belgica’s script on his father’s experiences running a nightclub in Ghent. How closely the story hews to the real events is anyone’s guess, though the boilerplate “though inspired by true events, all persons depicted are fictitious” title card which opens the film suggests that it might hit too close to home for more than a few real-life people. There are no bad guys in the movie, but no one comes off particularly well, either. A pair of brothers’ effort to build a successful disco pulls both of them into a draining swill of drugs and greed. That trajectory, and how the film goes through it, is disappointingly cliched — although maybe in this case, life was imitating (bland) art, and van Groeningen is just telling it as he saw it as a child.
The two brothers in question are Jo (Stef Aerts...
The two brothers in question are Jo (Stef Aerts...
- 1/22/2016
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
"Blending raw emotion with a rowdy musical sensibility," begins Variety's Peter Debruge, "Belgica doubles down on the qualities that made director Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown such an international sensation, but loses the hook, resulting in a louder, rock-drenched melodrama lacking much of the earlier film’s gut-punch potential." Belgica, starring Stef Aerts and Tom Vermeir and featuring a pumping soundtrack by Soulwax, has opened the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance. We've got the trailer and we're gathering a first round of reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2016
- Keyframe
"Blending raw emotion with a rowdy musical sensibility," begins Variety's Peter Debruge, "Belgica doubles down on the qualities that made director Felix van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown such an international sensation, but loses the hook, resulting in a louder, rock-drenched melodrama lacking much of the earlier film’s gut-punch potential." Belgica, starring Stef Aerts and Tom Vermeir and featuring a pumping soundtrack by Soulwax, has opened the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance. We've got the trailer and we're gathering a first round of reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Behind the joyful nihilism of messy nights out and a great Soulwax soundtrack, Felix van Groeningen’s Sundance-premiered drama is an accurate portrayal of all those ‘wtf’ moments
Felix van Groeningen’s Belgica is essentially a tale of two brothers who don’t know when the party is over. There’s Jo (Stef Aerts) the self-effacing, quietly confident bar manager, and his older brother Frank (Tom Vermeir), who’s reminiscent of an over-excited character from a Eugene O’Neill play: a middle-aged white man who is constantly banging on about pipe dreams and drinking far too much booze.
Frank’s bored of his home life, which consists of working at a used car lot and helping his wife out at the kennels, and wants some ‘rock’n’roll’ in his life. He decides Jo’s bar is the place to find that and, even though he can’t pour a pint,...
Felix van Groeningen’s Belgica is essentially a tale of two brothers who don’t know when the party is over. There’s Jo (Stef Aerts) the self-effacing, quietly confident bar manager, and his older brother Frank (Tom Vermeir), who’s reminiscent of an over-excited character from a Eugene O’Neill play: a middle-aged white man who is constantly banging on about pipe dreams and drinking far too much booze.
Frank’s bored of his home life, which consists of working at a used car lot and helping his wife out at the kennels, and wants some ‘rock’n’roll’ in his life. He decides Jo’s bar is the place to find that and, even though he can’t pour a pint,...
- 1/22/2016
- by Lanre Bakare
- The Guardian - Film News
Follow all of our Sundance 2016 coverage. Director Felix van Groeningen is no stranger to films about people whose closeness becomes a liability when conflict begins to drive them apart. His 2012 film, the Academy Award-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown, focused on a married couple who found their pure and tangible love for each other unable to withstand the pressure of a sick child. His latest complicates things further by making his protagonists bonded by blood not choice. Jo (Stef Aerts) has faced his share of troubles including a right eye that he hasn’t been able to open since a childhood illness damaged it beyond repair, but he’s found a comfortable routine running a small, nondescript club called Cafe Belgica. His older brother, Frank (Tom Vermeir), is married with a young son, but his fear of complacency and growing stale in middle age leads him to suggest a partnership with Jo and ultimately, an...
- 1/22/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Bar None: Van Groeningen Returns to Musical Inclinations for Vibrant Sibling Portrait
Belgian auteur Felix Van Groeningen, the front runner of the Belgian New Wave, returns with his fifth feature, Belgica, a portrait of two estranged brothers reuniting to open a successful night club, an experience forcing them to reexamine both their shortcomings and sometimes toxic enabling of each other’s worst tendencies. The film follows a career high for Van Groeningen, who scored an international breakout with 2013’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, another musically inclined drama which netted him an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film. Though his latest still includes unpredictable emotional highs and lows within a familiar set of family and friends, his latest is more sobering by comparison. With a killer soundtrack this is a well-proportioned character piece for its two leads, requiring a bit of patience for the film’s rather lofty running time...
Belgian auteur Felix Van Groeningen, the front runner of the Belgian New Wave, returns with his fifth feature, Belgica, a portrait of two estranged brothers reuniting to open a successful night club, an experience forcing them to reexamine both their shortcomings and sometimes toxic enabling of each other’s worst tendencies. The film follows a career high for Van Groeningen, who scored an international breakout with 2013’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, another musically inclined drama which netted him an Oscar nod for Best Foreign Language Film. Though his latest still includes unpredictable emotional highs and lows within a familiar set of family and friends, his latest is more sobering by comparison. With a killer soundtrack this is a well-proportioned character piece for its two leads, requiring a bit of patience for the film’s rather lofty running time...
- 1/22/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Belgica
Director: Felix van Groeningen
Writers: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens
Belgian director Felix van Groeningen has received numerous critical applause over the past decade, beginning with his 2004 debut Steve+Sky. 2009’s The Misfortunates received an award out of the Directors’ Fortnight, while he received considerable international success with 2012’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, which picked up awards at Berlin, Tribeca and nabbed a Cesar for Best Foreign Language Film. He’s been working on his fifth title, Belgica, since 2014, a story about two brothers who open a bar in Belgium and get swept up in the city’s nightlife.
Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Stefaan De Winter, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Production Co./Producers: Menuet’s Dirk Impens, Pyramide Productions, Topkapi Films
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic/international).
Release Date: Belgica will be competing in the World Dramatic category in January at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Director: Felix van Groeningen
Writers: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens
Belgian director Felix van Groeningen has received numerous critical applause over the past decade, beginning with his 2004 debut Steve+Sky. 2009’s The Misfortunates received an award out of the Directors’ Fortnight, while he received considerable international success with 2012’s The Broken Circle Breakdown, which picked up awards at Berlin, Tribeca and nabbed a Cesar for Best Foreign Language Film. He’s been working on his fifth title, Belgica, since 2014, a story about two brothers who open a bar in Belgium and get swept up in the city’s nightlife.
Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Stefaan De Winter, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Production Co./Producers: Menuet’s Dirk Impens, Pyramide Productions, Topkapi Films
U.S. Distributor: Rights available Tbd (domestic/international).
Release Date: Belgica will be competing in the World Dramatic category in January at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
- 1/8/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Kate Plays ChristineThe lineup for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 21 -31, has been announced.U.S. Dramatic COMPETITIONAs You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, USA): As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation. Cast: Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti, Scott Cohen, Mary Stuart Masterson. World Premiere The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, USA): Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Mark Boone Jr. World PremiereChristine (Antonio Campos,...
- 12/7/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The Sundance Film institute has released the line-up of film for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Going to Sundance is one of my favorite events of the year. I love going because you never know what kind of movies you're going to see. Sometimes they are great films that amaze and entertain, other times they completely suck ass, but that's all part of the fun of going to the festival. It's an awesome experience for any hardcore movie geek, and if you ever get a chance to go, you need to.
The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.
Some of...
The event takes place in Park City, Utah next year from January 21st to the 31st. It looks like there's a great line-up of movies at next year's event. My favorite portion of the event is the Midnight section because it deals more with geeky genre type movies, but I also enjoy the various sections of other line-ups.
Some of...
- 12/6/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
In last year’s section which included Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan and Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick, it was John Maclean’s debut Slow West claimed the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangailé landed the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic, Umrika was the audience’s won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic. In this year’s dozen offerings we have names we normally associate with Cannes in The Misfortunates‘ Felix van Groeningen (Belgica), The Other Side of Sleep‘s Rebecca Daly (Mammal – see pic above) and A Stray Girlfriend‘s Ana Katz (Mi Amiga del Parque). Here are the selections.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
- 12/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Titles include Tallulah starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney, and Chad Hartigan’s Morris From America (pictured); Next strand also announced.Scroll down for full list
Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.
Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.
Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...
Sundance Institute has announced the 65 films selected for the Us Competition, World Competition and out-of-competition Next categories set to screen at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival (Jan 21-31) in Park City.
Us Dramatic Competition selections include Sian Heder’s Tallulah with Ellen Page and Allison Janney; Antonio Campos’ Christine; Clea DuVall’s feature directorial debut The Intervention; and Richard Tanne’s Southside With You, about Barack Obama’s first date with the First Lady.
Among the Us Documentary Competition selections are: Holy Hell by undisclosed; Jeff Feuerzeig’s Author: The Jt LeRoy Story; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki.
The World Cinema Dramatic Competition entries include: Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands), Felix van Groeningen’s follow-up to The Broken Circle Breakdown; Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo’s Between Sea And Land (Colombia); and Nicolette Krebitz’s Wild...
- 12/2/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Over the past few years, there have been a number of films focusing on the personal toll of music making. This year saw Eden, the lightly fictionalized story of a failed DJ, which dominated the festival circuit, and the Edm story, We Are Your Friends, which attracted a small but vocal fanbase. And though they took markedly different approaches in tone and presentation, they both provided a snapshot into the coexisting destructive and wondrous effects of music.
Belgica, the next from from the Oscar-nominated Broken Circle Breakdown helmer Felix van Groeningen, looks to mine similar emotional terrain with its story of two brothers, Jo (Stef Aerts) and Frank (Tom Vermeir), who start a bar and become subsequently immersed in the Belgium club scene.
The first trailer emerged today, and it looks both exhausting and thrilling, shifting back and forth between the strained home life and frenzied work life of the two characters.
Belgica, the next from from the Oscar-nominated Broken Circle Breakdown helmer Felix van Groeningen, looks to mine similar emotional terrain with its story of two brothers, Jo (Stef Aerts) and Frank (Tom Vermeir), who start a bar and become subsequently immersed in the Belgium club scene.
The first trailer emerged today, and it looks both exhausting and thrilling, shifting back and forth between the strained home life and frenzied work life of the two characters.
- 11/24/2015
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Read More: Interview: Felix van Groeningen on 'The Broken Circle Breakdown' The creative minds behind the "The Misfortunates" and "The Broken Circle Breakdown" are back in the new trailer for "Belgica." Directed by Felix van Groeningen, the film tells the story of two brothers as they maintaining relationships with the women in their lives and between themselves, all while navigating the debauchery-ridden rock 'n' roll antics of the Dutch nightlife scene. Tom Vermeir and Steph Aerts star. The drama was written by Arne Sierens and Felix van Groeningen himself, while the role that Tom Vermeir plays was originally cast for Matthias Schoenaerts. The trailer above shows off the actors' impressive emotional range and the director's powerhouse work behind the camera. "Belgica" will hit theaters on March 2, 2016. Watch the trailer above. Read More: Q&A: Director Felix van Groeningen Talks Oscar Nominated 'Broken Circle...
- 11/24/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Felix van Groeningen, the director behind the terrific (and Oscar nominated), "The Broken Circle Breakdown," is quickly moving on up. In September he inked a deal to make his Hollywood debut with "Beautiful Boy," a drug addiction drama that Cameron Crowe was at one time attached to helm. But first, the filmmaker has knocked out "Belgica," and the first trailer for the movie has landed. Originally slated to star Matthias Schoenaerts, the film now features Stef Aerts, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Jean-Michel Balthazar, and Tom Vermeir, and finds the director going from the world of country and bluegrass, to rock 'n roll. The story follows brothers who run a raucous club, only to find the lifestyle starting to wear on their personal lives. Here's the official synopsis: The movie follows the story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks.
- 11/24/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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